aeroembolism

Other forms of aeroembolism

plural

aeroembolisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aeroembolism

What does aeroembolism mean?

aeroembolism means "obstruction of the circulatory system caused by an air bubble as, e.g., accidentally during surgery or hypodermic injection or as a complication from scuba diving". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aeroembolism?

aeroembolism has 6 syllables: a-e-ro-em-bo-lism. The stress falls on "em".

What is another word for aeroembolism?

Close synonyms include air embolism, gas embolism, decompression sickness, air embolism, gas embolism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aeroembolism a common word?

aeroembolism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.